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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | March - April (83)
@Gannon textures look very nice! Is the roof a unique mesh? @exitshadow Wireframe looks cool! Will you keep all the gratings for the lowpoly? I imagine all those faces would amount to some noticeable texture space. Looking forward to your updates! Gave the projector a shot with the goal to experiment a bit with mid-poly… -
Re: Workflow For Adding Tiny Details Like USB and Stereo Ports To Model?
Yes, you could certainly add them as floaters, or what I do now instead of floaters is just paint them directly into the normal map in Substance Painter. Or you could model some of the basic detail into the low poly if you can spare the extra verts, and bake the edges of the cutouts/dial. Or you could boolean model it and… -
Re: Mental Ray for Normal Maps?
+1 to Glynn with exception to the AO maps. MR does very nice AO. it may take a little longer but you get much finer control over the final map. With MR's ambient occlusion you can set a maximum distance value which essentially lets you control the distance at which a ray hit wont cause occlusion. this is great when using… -
Re: Blender Mega Thread
I released today TexTools version 0.9.0 You can download it from my new TexTools website http://renderhjs.net/textools/ New features Crop tool Crops UVs to the selection Get and set Texel density With 2 scale modes: by individual islands or as a whole Resize UV Extends or shrinks the UV canvas UV channel inspector and swap… -
Re: HARD SURFACE WORKFLOW - Modeling a Portable Generator
MY WORKFLOW Below are the production workflow steps beginning with gathering reference images, then moving into the high poly to low poly modeling workflow, followed by baking supporting maps and finishing with texturing and rendering. 1. GATHERING REFERENCE 2. HIGH POLY USING CREASE SETS 3. SETTING UP COLOR ID's 4.… -
Re: Tech Artist - What are you working on: FOREVER Edition!
Hey McGreed, this will probably help http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/15/ENU/MAXScript-Help/index.html?url=files/GUID-513285B3-DBF6-471E-B587-B5BE14D4D875.htm,topicNumber=d30e705402 On a side note, anyone have experience with DotNet? Having trouble with what seems like a refresh issue with a listView and rollout floaters.… -
Re: Rawk - Post any rocks you make here!
You could bake out a curvature map and just extract the blue channel from that. Granted the curvature map is pretty slow and doesn't work well with floaters. I hardly use floaters so the curvature map works great for me in most cases. I don't know if you're using references or not but IMO the main shape just feels kind of… -
Re: Edge weight
We use modo here at id, and edge weighting as well. As someone who never used weights before modo, I'll say it's pretty nice. I use a combination of holding edges and edge weighting. I don't know anyone that strictly uses weights. I generally use them for holding bevels, and stick to holding edges for everything that the… -
Re: [Tutorial] Perfect Normal Map baking in Substance Designer 5 without using a Cage
Hmm, I didn't see any 45 degree bevels if your video, maybe I missed that bit. Anyway, here you go (tested in XN w/o cage, run it through substance): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/499159/skewquack.zip As you can see, the floaters near the beveled edges are still skewed. Floaters in the center part of the face look… -
Re: What Are You Working On? 2013 Edition
I'm currently between jobs, so I figured I'd better keep busy! I saw this pistol in Saint's Row IV, and decided I wanted to make it myself. I didn't want to do geometry for the text because that would be a pain in the ass, so I made alphad bump mapped floating planes instead. It turns out that this is much nicer than…
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